Water-trap



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J. T. BRIBN WATER TRAP.

No. 476,224. 4 Patented Ma 31, 1892.

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J. T. BRIEN.

WATER TRAP. No. 476,224. I U Patented May 31,1892.

NITED STATES ATENT hic JAMES T. BRIEN, OF HOOS ICK FALLS, NEW YORK.

WATER-TRAP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 476,224, dated May 31,1892.

Application filed September '7, 1891- Serial No. 405,066. (No model.)

To 66% whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JAMES T. BRIEN, of Hoosiek Falls, in the county ofRensselaer and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in' Water-Traps, which improvements are fully set forth inthe following specification, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, in which t Figure 1 is a side view with cover or capplate 3removed. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same; Fig. 3, the cover orcap-plate that fits onto the body of the trap shown in Fig. 1; and Fig.4 is a cross-section of the trap on the line a: 00, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the severalfigures.

D is the entrance where the water enters the trap.

A is the body of the trap.

E is a hand-hole to clean out the trap.

F is an opening to attach a ventilator-pipe.

B and B are air-chambers. Said air-chambers can be one or more.

d and cl are partitions inside of the trap, so made as to form theair-chambers. d is carried down and inclined forward for thepurpose, soforminga trap-chamber below the S- trap and below the air-chambers, sothat gas cannot pass (1 and water cannot be siphoned out.

1-1 H are apertures in the cover, through which the partitions d and 01'pass, also the rim of the body A, (shown as 0,) and are made deeper, sothat the former will pass through the cover and the rim be flush withit, as shown in Fig. 4- I consider this construction more convenient andcheaper to manufacture and much easier to be sealed air-tight.

The object of this invention is to obtain a simple and efficientwater-trap, doing away with checks and balls and securing what I call anon-siphon trap. WVith the ordinary water cannot be siphoned out of thistrap, as

the unsealing of the air-chambers B and B causes a break in the siphonand stops the How of the water, while the main trap-chamber A is stillnearly full, the partition 01 forming a trap still lower than the S-trapand preventing the return of gas after the S-trap has been siphoned. Incase sewer-gas should come up into the trap, when it reached it it wouldrise into the air-chambers B and B. If any should go below 13 B, itwould strike the partition-wall d and rise into the air-chambers B B orto the top of the trap.

What I claim is The combination, with the receiving-bowl of a trap, of asiphonic discharge-pipe, an induction-pipe, the mouth of the latterextended below that of the former, and an inclosed airchamber sealed atthe bottom intermediate the discharge and induction pipes, whereby theair from the chamber breaks or cuts off the siphonic discharge beforethe water reaches the level of the mouth of the inlet-pipe, asspecified.

JAMES T. BRIEN. WVitnesses:

JOHN G. I-IAsWnLL, OEPHAs D. KINSLEY.

